Nick Kaiser | |
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 Nick Kaiser at the 2019 Gruber Prize ceremony | |
| Born | 15 September 1954 Sheffield, England |
| Died | 13 June 2023 (aged 68) Paris, France |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (PhD) University of Leeds (BSc) |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society (2008) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2017) Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | École Normale Supérieure University of Hawaiʻi Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics |
| Thesis | Anisotropy of the microwave background radiation (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Martin Rees |
| Doctoral students | Shaun Cole |
Nicholas Kaiser FRS (15 September 1954 – 13 June 2023) was a British cosmologist.[1][2][3][4]
Kaiser received his Bachelor's in physics at Leeds University in 1978, and his Part III in maths at University of Cambridge in 1979.[1] He obtained his PhD in astronomy, also at the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Martin Rees.[5]
After postdoctoral positions at University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Sussex, and University of Cambridge, Kaiser was Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics Professor at the University of Toronto (1988–1997). In 1998 he moved to become Professor at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaiʻi.[6] From 2017 to 2022 he was Professor at École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
Kaiser was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008.[4]
Kaiser died of heart failure on 13 June 2023, at the age of 68.[4][7][8][9]
Kaiser made major contributions to cosmology:
Kaiser wrote articles on details of cosmological distance measures.
Kaiser was the initiator and Principal Investigator of the PanSTARRS imaging survey of most of the sky.[13]
Kaiser won numerous awards and honors including:
